The Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) announced on Saturday that 504,759 tons of commodities, valued at about $190 million, were traded in its domestic trading and export halls in the week ending November 26.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and ex-UEFA chief Michel Platini are now being investigated for “fraud” and “breach of trust” in Switzerland, a source with access to the probe said.

Iraq accounted for 27 percent of the total export share of Iranian commodities during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 20-October 21), said the director general of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization’s Office of Arabian and African Countries.

Iran exported $3.2 billion worth of commodities during the month to November 20, said the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA).

Hunger is on the rise in southern Madagascar due to consecutive years of drought, affecting half the region’s population, or 1.5 million people, and forcing most families to eat insects, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported.

Children born prematurely have a higher risk of hospitalization later on than those born at full term, a new study says.

India deployed hundreds of police and paramilitary forces at a New Delhi border on Saturday as thousands of farmers from neighboring states blocked major roads into the capital, in protest against recent agricultural deregulation.

Past research has often highlighted the effects that immune activation in pregnant women can have on the development of human embryos, for instance increasing the risk of a child developing psychiatric disorders later in life. The neural mechanisms underpinning these effects, however, remain largely unclear.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, is advising Americans who have already had the coronavirus — or suspect that they’ve had it — to take the coming vaccines for it anyway.

A computerized system that advises doctors on the best treatment to give a patient is among the artificial intelligence (AI) projects that have been awarded £20m by the British government.